Half-formed thought but there's a sort of... scientization... of society that is bad. The scientific method itself is good and has produced wonderful things, science as an institution is problematic but definitely necessary, but I don't mean either of those. I mean more the way that we use things stamped "SCIENCE" to pretend that our decisions are Objective. Or that we let tech companies get a pass on all kinds of ethical concerns because they're Advancing Science.
Basically, it seems like the press, government, and a lot of the public is willing to believe in magic as long as you reassure them that it's actually sufficiently advanced technology.
This is not a new problem, it's well over a hundred years old (enjoy healthful radium water for all your ills), but it's frustrating that in all that time we haven't developed really effective defenses against it. We can apply a certain type of reactive skepticism to the obvious cases and say "well obviously the radium water wasn't real science," but that's not the same as (might even be antithetical to) a more general perspective that science isn't Correctness Juice that we can pour on every problem.
Science is great! It is also not as far advanced as anyone thinks it is, easily simulated by hucksters in labcoats--and fundamentally cannot produce goals, only guide you toward what methods might achieve the goals you chose via frighteningly imprecise and nauseatingly accountable human methods.
